Quotes about other page 63
“There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.”
Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor
As quoted in The Great Quotations (1971) edited by George Seldes, p. 366
“Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.”
James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States
Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948) Novelist, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Source: Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1963, Remarks Prepared for Delivery at the Trade Mart in Dallas
Context: It is fitting that these two symbols of Dallas progress are united in the sponsorship of this meeting, for they represent the best qualities, I am told, of leadership and learning in this city — and leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. The advancement of learning depends on community leadership for financial and political support and the products of that learning, in turn, are essential to the leadership's hopes for continued progress and prosperity. It is not a coincidence that those communities possessing the best in research and graduate facilities — from MIT to Cal Tech — tend to attract the new and growing industries. […] This link between leadership and learning is not only essential at the community level, it is even more indispensable in world affairs. Ignorance and misinformation can handicap the progress of a city or a company, but they can, if allowed to prevail in foreign policy, handicap this country's security. In a world of complex and continuing problems, in a world full of frustrations and irritations, America's leadership must be guided by the lights of learning and reason, or else those who confuse rhetoric with reality and the plausible with the possible will gain the popular ascendancy with their seemingly swift and simple solutions to every world problem.
“Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.”
Michel De Montaigne book Essays
Source: Essais (1595), Book III, Chapter X. Of Managing the Will. End of First Paragraph.
“We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.”
Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
Source: I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame
Alexander McCall Smith book The Kalahari Typing School for Men
Source: The Kalahari Typing School for Men
“Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.”
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People
Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest
Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
“To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart.”
Marjane Satrapi book Embroideries
Source: Embroideries
“I feel that others live up to me, if they want me.”
Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged
Source: Atlas Shrugged
Raymond Carver (1938–1988) American short story author and poet
Source: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
“Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.”
Seth Godin (1960) American entrepreneur, author and public speaker
Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer
Source: Reinvention: How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life
“A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy”
John Irving book A Prayer for Owen Meany
Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany
Mark Haddon book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
“I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley The Cenci
The Cenci (1819), Act I, sc. iii, l. 88
“Our best thoughts come from others.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
“Door of passage to the other side, the soul frees itself in stride.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors
Source: The Lords and the New Creatures
Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
“And the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Source: The Witch Of Portobello
Stormie Omartian (1942) American writer
Source: Stormie: A Story of Forgiveness and Healing
“Nevertheless we understood each other on all levels of madness…”
Jack Kerouac book On the Road
Source: On the Road
Stephen R. Covey (1932–2012) American educator, author, businessman and motivational speaker
Source: The 3rd Alternative: Solving Life's Most Difficult Problems
Jane Smiley (1949) American novelist
Source: A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck
Sandra Day O'Connor (1930) Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
McCreary County v. American Civil Liberties Union, 545 U.S. 844 (2005) (concurring).
Context: Reasonable minds can disagree about how to apply the Religion Clauses in a given case. But the goal of the Clauses is clear: to carry out the Founders’ plan of preserving religious liberty to the fullest extent possible in a pluralistic society. By enforcing the Clauses, we have kept religion a matter for the individual conscience, not for the prosecutor or bureaucrat. At a time when we see around the world the violent consequences of the assumption of religious authority by government, Americans may count themselves fortunate: Our regard for constitutional boundaries has protected us from similar travails, while allowing private religious exercise to flourish. [... ] Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: Why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer
Jesting Pilate: The Diary of a Journey, (1926)
Source: https://archive.org/details/jestingpilatedia0000huxl/page/214/mode/2up?q=To+travel+is+to+discover+that+everyone+is+wrong Part II: Malaya
“I loved being in my own head so much, it was getting harder and harder being with other people.”
Marian Keyes (1963) Irish writer
Source: Anybody Out There?
“We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day.”
Dave Eggers book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Source: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer
Source: Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double Your Productivity, and Achieve All Your Goals
William James book The Varieties of Religious Experience
Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience
Paulo Coelho book Aleph
Source: Aleph (2011)
Context: What we aim to do is calm the spirit and get in touch with the source from which everything comes, removing any trace of malice or egotism. If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you’ll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.
Robin S. Sharma (1965) Canadian self help writer
Source: The Greatness Guide: Powerful Secrets for Getting to World Class
Li Bai (701–762) Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty poetry period
[38] "Alone Looking at the Mountain"
Variant translations:
The birds have vanished down the sky.
Now the last cloud drains away.
We sit together, the mountain and me,
until only the mountain remains.
"Zazen on Ching-t'ing Mountain", trans. Sam Hamill
Flocks of birds fly high and vanish;
A single cloud, alone, calmly drifts on.
Never tired of looking at each other—
Only the Ching-t'ing Mountain and me.
"Sitting Alone in Ching-t'ing Mountain", trans. Irving Y. Lo
Howard Gardner (1943) American developmental psychologist
Source: Intelligence reframed: Multiple intelligences for the 21st century, 1999, p. 51
JPR Williams (1949) Welsh rugby union player
JPR Given The Breaks - My Life In Rugby (2007), published by Hodder ISBN 9780340923085
Benvenuto Cellini (1500–1571) Florentine sculptor and goldsmith
La Pittura non è altro, che o albero o uomo o altra cosa, che si specchi in un fonte. La differenza, che è dalla Scultura alla Pittura è tanta, quanto è dalla ombra e la cosa, che fa l'ombra.
Letter to Benedetto Varchi, January 28, 1546, cited from G. P. Carpani (ed.) Vita di Benvenuto Cellini (Milano: Nicolo Bettoni, 1821) vol. 3, p. 185; translation from Thomas Nugent (trans.) The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, a Florentine Artist (London: Hunt and Clarke, 1828) vol. 2, p. 265.